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I was in secondary education (only) ca. 15 years ago but this makes me feel 60 years old. What on earth is a student surveillance tool? Sure we had DNS filtered

I was in secondary education (only) ca. 15 years ago but this makes me feel 60 years old. What on earth is a student surveillance tool? Sure we had DNS filtered sites on school workstations but that was about it. "Though Gaggle’s software is generally limited to monitoring school-issued accounts, including those by Google and Microsoft, the company recently acknowledged it can scan through photos on students’ personal cell phones if they plug them into district laptops." This is straight up insane. If I had kids I wouldn't even send them to a school that acts like this. Maybe it's because I'm German or something but that sounds out of the Stasi era.

version_five 4y ago
> school-issued accounts, including those by Google and Microsoft This appears to be what happened. Google and microsoft figured out how to exploit children for money by forcing them to use their shitty products in place of actual classroom education. I agree with you, I wouldn't want my school in a computer centric education, let-alone a heavily monitored one. It sounds like what you'd expect in a juvenile prison
heavyset_go 4y ago
> This is straight up insane. If I had kids I wouldn't even send them to a school that acts like this You might have to move if you want to escape this, and you'll never really know if/when a school or district implements these surveillance programs, either. > Maybe it's because I'm German or something but that sounds out of the Stasi era. That's because it is. The Stasi/KGB/etc couldn't have dreamed of the capabilities authorities have today to surveil everyone at a massive scale to find even the smallest of their infractions.